Sara Delano was quite a catch for James Roosevelt when he wound up his whirlwind courtship and married her in 1880. She was a handsome, hazel-eyed girl of 26, just half James Roosevelt’s age.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

A world leader during the Great Depression and World War II, Roosevelt often went by his full name; Delano was the maiden name of his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who hailed from a wealthy ...

Early in “Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons,” a double biography of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt, author Charlotte Gray tells us that Winston Churchill’s American mother ...

The townhouse is a gift from Sara Delano Roosevelt to her son and his new bride. “Sara in 1908 decides that the newlyweds Eleanor and Franklin should have a home of their own, and as they are ...

This unusual and engaging double biography, “Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt” (Simon & Schuster, 432 pgs., $29.99), blends ...

As enraptured bystanders along different swaths of the Champs-Elysées in Paris in the summer of 1867, 13-year-old expat Americans Jennie Jerome and Sara Delano watched with their families as the ...

The delegation, led by Dr Israel Goldstein, chairman of the Jewish section, presented the President with a scroll in which the memory of Sara Delano Roosevelt is cited as “a shining inspiration ...